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UNITED STATES v PATENT EDWARD OHARLES-LEAHY, OF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR. To HIMSELF, JOSEPH HOWE AUsTEN, JOHN WHITE, AND FRANKBOB- r ERTS, ALL OF SA ME'PLAOE.

LUBRICANT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatenc No. 376,961 dated January 24,,l888l Application filed August 31, 1887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWAigD CHARLES LEAHY, of thecity andcounty of Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia and Dominion of 5 Canada, have invented a new and Improved Lubricating Compound, of which the'following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates man im proved lubricating compound the component IO parts of which are comparatively inexpensive, easy of compounding, and which in use and effect afford most practical and desirable results. t

In forming my improved lubricant I take 15 of the following ingredients and in or about the proportions named, to wit: Cochin cocoanut-0i1, twenty-five parts, lard, twenty-five parts; tallow, twenty-five parts; plumbago, ten parts; tin crystals, two parts; carbonate 20 of soda, (of about-15 Baum test,) fifteen parts; refined sodium chloride, (of about 22 Baum test,) ten parts. These ingredients are warmed or heated sufficiently to enable them vt0 be thoroughly mixed togetherg'after which l 25 the lubricant is in condition for use.

When the lubricant is to be used for car-axle boxes, ten parts of yarn "waste is incorporated Serial No. 248378. (No specimens.)

yarn waste is the refuse oflwool yarn, and is well known to the trade, and when the comwith it to form the vehicle or absorbent. This pound has become exhausted frourthe waste it may readily be renewed.

The proportions of any or all of the ingrcdients named may be more orlesssvaried and yet produce a most desirable and useful lubri eating compound; but the proportions given have been found to afford the best results.

Having thus described iny invention, what carbonate of soda, and chloride of sodium,

substantially as set forth. 1

2. A lubricating compound consisting of cocoanut-oil, lard, tallow. plumbago, yarn waste, tin crystals, carbonate of soda, and chlorideofsodium, in substantially the proportions specified. a

EDWARD CHARLES LEAHY.

' WVitnesses: I I V CHARLES H. TUPPER, FRANK ROBERTS. 

